Genetic history of hepatitis C virus in East Asia.

The hepatitis C virus (HCV), which currently infects an estimated 3% of people worldwide, has been present in some human populations for several centuries, notably HCV genotypes 1 and 2 in West Africa and genotype 6 in Southeast Asia. Here we use newly developed methods of sequence analysis to condu...

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Main Authors: Pybus, O, Barnes, E, Taggart, R, Lemey, P, Markov, P, Rasachak, B, Syhavong, B, Phetsouvanah, R, Sheridan, I, Humphreys, I, Lu, L, Newton, P, Klenerman, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009